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 414 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2s.vm.MAY2i,io2i. EPIGRAMMATISTS (12 S. viii. 371). (5) Franciscus Remundus is Francois Remond, born at Dijon, 1558, died at Mantua, Nov. 14, 1631. He completed his studies in Italy, received the doctorate in theology at j Padua, and entered the Society of Jesus , in 1580. In 1600 he was appointed director; of studies in the reorganized Academy of! Parma, recalled to Bordeaux in 1604 as professor of theology, and later went to ; Mantua to teach sacred literature. During the siege of Mantua he attended the sick in hospital, caught a contagious disease from one of the patients, and died of it. Fr. Remond had a reputation as a writer of Latin verse (see Qolletet, ' Discours de la Poesie morale,' pp. 34, 174-175 ; Vavasseur, ' Traite de FEpigramme,' p. 260). His published works are ' Poemata,' Antwerp, 1614, 12mo ; Rome, 1618, 12mo ; ' Sacrarum elegiarum deliciae,' Paris, 1648, 12mo ; ' Panegyricae orationes, xxx., Pia- cenza, 1626, 4to ; Lyons, 1627, 12mo. RORY FLETCHER. (2) According to Zedler's ' Universal Lexi-'! con,' Timotheus Polus came from Merse- burg, was professor of Poetry in the Gym- nasium at Reval, and died on March 2, ' 1642, in his forty-third year. The works | ascribed to him are: (i.) 'Epigrammata, Hyporchemata & Anacreontica, &c.' ; (ii.) ' Epigrammatica & miscellanea et sacia lyrica ' ; (iii.) ' Poemata varia utriusque linguae ' ; and, in German, (iv.) " Theatrum opificum, artificum, inventorum, &c.' (3) The same authority says that Georgius Thurius was a native of Griechisch Weissen- burg (under which disguise the English reader is not prepared to recognize Bel- grade), studied at Wittenberg under Me- lanchthon, and is perhaps the same as the G. Thurius who translated the Epistles to the Galatians and Ephesians out of Greek into Hebrew. The " Delitiae Poetarum Hunga.ricorum,' edited by Johann Philipp Pareus (1619), includes, pp. 316-354, Thurius's ' Elegiarum liber wius,' ' Epitaphia Cogna- torum & Fautorum,' and ' Epigrammata/ Thurius was an imperial ' Poeta laureatus.' (4) Jacobus Roecjrius on p. 16 of Abraham Wright's ' Delitiae Delitiarum ' is a " fault | of the press " for Rogerivs. The name is correctly given in the preliminary " Cata- 1 logus Authorum." A. J. van der Aa's ' Biographisch Woordenboek der Neder- landen' tells us that Jacobus Roger was from Doornyk (=Tournai) and flourished in the first half of the sixteenth century. He was the author of ' Neopaegnia seu lusus pueriles,' Paris, 1539. A few of his poems are included in Part III. of the ' Delitiae Poetarum Gallorurn,' edited by ' Ranutius Gherus ' ( = Janus Gruterus), 1609. The epigram, on the ignorant rich man given there and by Abraham Wright, p. 16, is based on a saying attributed to Diogenes the Cynic by Diogenes Laertius, vi. 2, 47. J. C. Scaliger, in the sixth book of his ' Poetice,' praises the hendecasyllables of Rogerius, whom he supposes to belong to Orleans. (5) Franciscus Remundus: Francois Remond the Jesuit is probably the best known of the five writers. He was born at Dijon in 1558, and died (of the plague, it is said) at Mantua in 1631. My copy of his ' Carmina & Orationes ' was published ("nova editio ") at Antwerp in 1623. The dedication to Louis XI1T. when Dauphin is dated from Bordeaux, June 24 r 1605. This edition, at any rate, reads ruit where Wright, p. 17, line 5, has erit, and prints in epigram, i. 35, crinis format ur as against Wright's crines formantur. EDWARD BENSLY. CATHERINOT: EPIGRAMMATA (12 S. viiL 371). There is a notice and bibliography of Nicolas Catherine! in Niceron's ' Me- moires,' tome xxx., pp. 191-217. Niceron enumerates 118 of his performances, con- taming for the most part a very few pages apiece. The following entries refer to the ' Epigrammata ' : 5 - ' Epigrammatum liber primus. Biturigis attention. e. ' Ep. lib. secundus. Biturigibus 1660,' in- 12, pp. 20. Catherinot ayant trouve a ce second livre quelques fautes d'impression, ecrivit pp. 2. Elle est datee du 6e Aout 1660. 8. ' Ep. lib. tertius. Biturigibus 1660,' in- 12, pp. 20. 11. ' Ep. lib. quartus' (1661), in- 12, pp. 20. 12. ' Ep. lib. quintus,' in- 12, pp. 20. La date & de plus puerile que toutes ces Epigrammes. 20. ' Ep. liber 6, 7, & 8/ in-4, pp. 63. David Clement, in his ' Bibliotheque curieuse,' tome vi., 1756, pp. 429-449, swells to 181 items his list of Catherine t's publications, if indeed they can be called publications when the author's way of bringing them before the notice of the public was, according to the ' Menagiana *